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... having not really played the games, I couldn't say for sure, but if the fairly copious amount of ME fanfiction I've read is anything to go by calling the Asari pacifists is seriously not paying attention to the setting. Empathic race that just happens to produce some of the deadliest special forces in the galaxy and manages to field some of the most vicious power-players in galactic politics? They're a lot of things, and definitely prefer diplomacy over overt violence, but pacifist the Asari are not.

... man, most of my actual uses of plain sugar have involved salt-like applications of it. If sugar's being measured, it's brown sugar. Otherwise the sweet-additive is... something not plain sugar. And lumps of sugar basically don't exist where I'm at. I mean, technically they're in stores (sugar cubes, etc.), but they're very rarely used, in practice.

You can do the spoon thing, too, but a shaker works better in a lot of cases. S'usually those restaurant shakers (y'know the ones, fairly sizable, cylindrical, has the kinda' square-ish flap over a circular hole...) , but they put salt in those occasionally, too.

... lots of people? It's pretty common (or at least not unknown in my area, in any case) in the states, anyway, and it's not like it's a bad idea. Consistency's roughly the same as salt, so it's a pretty good way to distribute sugar.

Well a lot of games portray the 'Charismatic woman using her wiles to trick the dumb man'.
It happens a lot in real life, but some feminists don't seem to like the idea of seductiveness being used as a weapon- it kinda buys into the 'male dominated world' thing.

... doesn't seduction as a weapon kinda' cross the gender line going both ways? There's a fair amount of historical examples for pretty much any permutation of that, media wise you've got the seductress, you've got Bond, and so on, and so forth.

Would agree weaponized seduction's more highlighted as a female thing, but it's something that gets brought out to play on both sides fairly often, innit?

Yeah it really doesn't count if the male and female character choice are two different characters.

Mm. That'd leave the Summon Nights still there, then, of the ones I've played recently (and can recall, anyway). They do a pretty bang-up job with dialogue shifts, iirc. Less so regarding mechanical changes (read: There kinda' aren't any.), but eh.

And @Eyetwo, I think Neo, at least, is thinking about games where genderflipping the same character (the MC, in most cases) has a notable difference. I'd personally expand consideration beyond that (as should be obvious given the response ), but it's fair enough to consider that as a separate consideration from games that let you choose between different gendered characters instead of simply choosing the gender of a particular one.

For that, the Gearhead games are probably about in line with the Fallout ones, now that I think about it. So there's two (Well, technically five -- SN goes for 3 games on the GBA, Gearhead has 2 on the PC) more to add to the list.

E: Oh! And I'm fairly sure some of the Super Robot Wars games have that going on, too, if my memory isn't failing me. Pretty sure a handful of 'em let you choose gender along with robot type, with all sorts of effects.

E2: And there's a fair number of CYOA or text based adventure games out there that exhibit the effect, of course. There's actually someone LPing one over in the Play with your Buddies right now.

Yet comment from a fellow moderate was that there was new evidence suggesting Brown had reacted violently and/or tried to resist arrest to the police officer, thus adding more assets towards the cop's innocence regarding this issue.

What is this evidence and how credible is it?

Outside the publicly released grand jury testimonies, I'm personally unaware of any notable evidence of that nature. And in that case, you've got contradictory testimony from the two closest people (Brown's friend, and the police officer) in regards to what went down and a fairly incredibly shitty prosecutorial performance crapping all over much of what came out of said grand jury.

If there's nothing new and that's what they were talking about, the answer is the grand jury testimonies (in this case, pretty much entirely the LEO's, since the other immediate report marks the officer as the belligerent party and initiator of violence) and very much arguably credible.

E: I'll admit I haven't exactly been paying attention once it became fairly obvious the situation wasn't going to trial like it needed to, though. It's entirely possible there's some sort of new evidence that's come up, but I'm not entirely sure what that evidence could be, unless they somehow dug up a close-up video recording of the event, complete with clear audio.

3! Trollassy wants moolah.